Harvey Stanbrough
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This is the ninth book in the Future of Humanity (FOH) series. After a long journey, it's time to set the ship down on the new human home world, which General Amanda Lowrey has named, appropriately, Terra 2.
There is Landing Site Eden, where she will attempt to set down a ship that was never meant to land. There are the satellite sites, each 50 miles from Eden, to the north, east, south and west.
There are the advance teams, whose only job is to...
2) The Storm
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Harold Sloan is the chief terraformer on Galen, a planet in another solar system.
Harold is also a man who lives very much within himself, and he loves nothing more than his work. Or so he believes.
Which is worse? The work-stopping storm that sometimes rages outside his annex apartment window? Or is it the internal storm, the one he can never escape?
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Although it was the first novel written in the series, with the advent of three prequels, Leaving Amarillo actually is Book 4 in the Wes Crowley saga. The titles are arranged chronologically, but each also is a stand-alone novel. Wes Crowley and Otis "Mac" McFadden are lifelong friends. Wes is a year younger and has always looked up to Mac, so when Mac joined the Texas Rangers in the 1870s in the Texas Panhandle, Wes goes along as usual.
But placing...
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Harold Cranston, 87 years old minus 1 day, is packing at his wife's direction for a trip to see their son in Colorado. He works in the Mustang Mountain tracking station. Helen and Harold live outside of Huntsville, Alabama, the home of Redstone Arsenal. Like the epigram says, When the missiles are launched, who among us will know? This story is derived from the forthcoming novel, The Consensus.
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From the opening: Of the three wingback chairs in my library, only one is upholstered in human skin. There's a reason for that.
Charles Claymore Task has been labeled a psychopath by hypocrites who see themselves as "normal." And a group of wealthy investors want to know what makes him tick.
They ask him to detail for a film crew what makes people like him tick. At least that's the initial plan.
On film, Charlie describes the abandonment, disillusionment,...
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The Wes Crowley Saga: Part One contains the first five novels from the Wes Crowley series in order, as well as the original book covers. This is effectively an electronic "boxed set" of five novels. The Wes Crowley Saga: Part Two contains the last five novels from the Wes Crowley series in order, as well as the original book covers. This is effectively an electronic "boxed set" of five novels. The overall Wes Crowley Saga spans almost 50 years. It...
7) Loose Ends
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What deep personal fantasy can sustain an unrequited love for forty years? How can a jilted lover watch and learn and plot and plan, yet miss the most valuable lesson of all?
Come along on this tension-filled journey of intrigue, suspense and atonement with city police detective Del Samuels and PI Stern Talbot. Help unravel the truth and discover the one glaring, major lesson buried deep within.
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Long before he went into private practice as a P.I., Stern Talbot was a detective for the LAPD. Some cases are better than others, not so rattling. Not so sleep-depriving. Not so insane.
But the evidence in a brand new missing persons case echoes the evidence in a three year old cold case that ended with a missing body. Now it's time to figure things out and close them both. How could Stern know what was waiting at the end of the line? The twists...
9) Line of Duty
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The mob boss wants to test a rookie driver and maybe teach him a lesson too. How to Get the Boss Out of Harm's Way 101. Surely nothing will go wrong. Surely.
10) Georgette Tilden
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Georgette Tilden, wife of Blackwell Ops operative Jack Tilden and an operative in her own right, returns to tell her own unique story.
A deadly combination of charm, looks, and skills, Georgette will disarm, disable and drop you - you won't have a chance to blink.
TJ Blackwell, the owner of Blackwell Ops, has always encouraged his operatives to work solo. In fact, most of them don't even know who the other operatives are.
Way back in Book 1, TJ...
13) The Tarp
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Salvatore "Little Sally" Picarilli is having a rough day. On one front, his wife is being demanding. On the other, his boss is loading him up with extra, less than usual tasks. What gives?
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All lesser species eventually complete their life cycle with evolution and extinction. It is the natural order of things. But as Othgygnrk King Elder Griesch Mor has recently learned, humans don't like to be rushed. And apparently they aren't willing to accept a premature, forced extinction to make way for his species. Oddly, they don't see themselves as the lesser species at all. In the genesis novel of this story of planetary invasion, the upstart...
15) Without A Clue
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The young new guy is more defective than detective. But his snitch gave up the information so he's in charge. It ought to be a routine takedown, albeit of a rising Mafia star. But old age and treachery will overcome youth and vigor every time. On both sides of the law.
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This is not your typical Christmas story. The unnamed speaker is unnamed for a reason that becomes clear later in the story. But what he has to say is more interesting than who he is anyway. Why won't he get in the Christmas spirit and just go along? And what's he doing with that shovel?
18) Strainge Times
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In these five stories, a woman is drawn to a shop that looks like an antique store; she's looking for furnishings for her home in the French Quarter, where she lived a very, very long time ago. Jim Cable has been sent to stabilize the Grenlow, a Morgan-class interplanetary transport, and bring it home. The engine room holds a mystery he didn't bargain for. Marco and the author chase down Joey Bones to teach him a lesson. Joey's been trash talkin'...
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You wake up after a long nap. You reach over to see whether your partner's awake, and discover she's dead. Of a cut throat. In your bed.
You didn't do it. But who did? How did they do it without waking you? And when? And why? Stern Richards, PI, has to find out. Or go to prison.
20) Saving Face
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Dropping in after 47 years on old acquaintances at a high school reunion can have some strange consequences.
Especially when some people have never changed.
Sometimes the agent of change is the doomat from yesterday.